Hi, FWIW, I checked the R-Devel subscriber list of e-mail addresses (as Co-Admin with Martin I have access). There are presently 1,296 subscribers to individual posts and 746 to post digests on R-Devel.
Neither of the two e-mail addresses referenced below as being the sources of spam are listed as subscribers. A Google search of those two e-mail addresses also came up empty. The "octbm.com <http://octbm.com/>" domain is legitimate, though the web site is "under construction" and the whois information shows that it was registered earlier this year by a person in Bangladesh who seems to own a large number of domains: http://www.domainiq.com/email?mesba.ci...@gmail.com There are a lot of technical ways of falsely generating those two e-mail addresses of course and an inspection of the full e-mail headers might be fruitful, although there are ways of manipulating those as well. Regards, Marc > On Dec 6, 2016, at 10:20 AM, frede...@ofb.net wrote: > > I agree that no action should be taken. > > It's somewhat mystifying that the robot known as "Amy Kristen" > responds so quickly after my post, and with such regularity (so far > twice per hour), using perhaps several email addresses - and using the > correct "Reply-To" headers. But more mystifying is that she keeps the > same name the whole time. And lucky, I guess, because otherwise I > wouldn't know how to filter her out... > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:02:11AM -0600, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This topic has come up previously, across the R e-mail lists and the >> spammers need not be subscribers (but could be), but simply reasonably >> competent HTML scrapers. >> >> If you look at the online archives of the R lists, for example R-Devel for >> this month: >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-December/thread.html >> <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-December/thread.html> >> >> and look at the individual posts, there is only minimal munging of e-mail >> addresses, which is easily overcome with basic scripting. >> >> This is further compounded by there being a multitude of other places on the >> web, where actively updated archives of the R lists exist, providing >> additional sources of e-mail addresses for spammers. >> >> Some of the prior discussions had considered that we might preserve only the >> list address in the posts sent out (as some groups do) and fully scrape the >> sender's e-mail address from the post when distributed and archived. >> However, that approach is not without it's own limitations (e.g. would make >> cc's and reply-all largely useless, except for off-list discussion) and so >> no action has been taken since this seems to be a transient issue. >> >> Regards, >> >> Marc Schwartz >> >> >>> On Dec 6, 2016, at 7:52 AM, Mario Emmenlauer <ma...@emmenlauer.de> wrote: >>> >>> >>> The problem is not specific to this list. Any kind of public >>> list may mean that other subscribers (or even the whole world) >>> can see your email address. So whenever you mail to a (public) >>> list there is a good chance that afterwards, you will get more >>> spam. Not really much can be done about it, at least not on >>> the side of the list, since any of the subscribers may be a >>> spammer, who can know... >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> Mario >>> >>> >>> >>> On 06.12.2016 14:13, frede...@ofb.net wrote: >>>> Yes, I just heard from Amy Kristen who is "looking to meet new >>>> guys"... >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 11:31:56AM -0800, Kenny Bell wrote: >>>>> Have others received spam messages after posting to this list? >>>>> >>>>> The two problem emails are hodgesdonna...@yahoo.com and >>>>> amykristen4...@octbm.com. >>>>> >>>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Viele Gruesse, >>> >>> Mario Emmenlauer >>> >>> >>> -- >>> BioDataAnalysis GmbH, Mario Emmenlauer Tel. Buero: +49-89-74677203 >>> Balanstr. 43 mailto: memmenlauer * biodataanalysis.de >>> D-81669 München http://www.biodataanalysis.de/ >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
